On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 02:31 PM, Allen Montgomery wrote: The second picture shows the amount of overhang of the wheel sets as I had to move them out to gain some room for the trucks to pivot. That

Very nice Paul Doggett

Looking mighty good, thanks for sharing. I will abstain for a few days. Fenton -- Fenton Wells 250 Frye Rd Pinehurst NC 28374 910-420-8106 srrfan1401@...

I thought I’d share a couple of my weathering projects on the Rapido cars. Definitely still work in progress, with no flat coat applied. I keep playing with softening the edges where some of the

Clark You made a great job of it Paul Doggett

This is a F&C ARA 1932 design box car I got for the “Make me buy it” price. Even thought it was the new one piece body it still had the crappy decals that came with the early Yankee Clipper kits.

I hadn't been aware of these specific follow-on orders, but the practice of smaller Canadian roads placing an order for cars identical to and immediately following one by a major Canadian road seems

I have the same or a similar kit with the same stencil. My thought has been that the car was assigned to carry petroleum products in barrels, and that the producer was located in Bakersfield. When

I am doing some research at the club to find out what the origin of this stencil was. The other night, no one knew. Will advise. -Jay Styron

FWIW, The California State RR Museum Library has the General Design drawing for that class. https://csrm.andornot.com/en/permalink/techdrawing32274 Tim is right about the trucks. Cheers, Dick

Bruce, The TEM's Railway Accounting Code was 754 and 33 of their 149 stations had agents and their remainder were prepay only for receiving freight. At Trout Mills Ont. Wm. Milne & Sons was the only

CDS does not sell chalk marks. John Riddell Sent from Mail for Windows

Eric, Remember those hot, muggy days of summer when you walked out of the air conditioned house and your glasses fogged? The same may have happened when you brought the 50 degree models into the 70+

Allen Montgomery wrote: Allen, the model looks excellent. It is almost a dead ringer for the H-70-2 class on Southern Pacific. Any chance some of the bodies will be for sale or trade? Tony

in the UK the brine used for preserving fish in a barrel was actually just salt and the water present in the fish turned it to brine. A good fish wife (herring gutter) could gut between 2 and 3 fish

Instead of detergent, use Kodak Photo-Flo. On 1/25/2022 12:39 PM, WILLIAM PARDIE wrote: -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

Great looking car! Will these be available to purchase anywhere? <sandbear75@...> wrote:

Unfortunate about the trucks, but you may have used 100 ton trucks, which have a 5-10 wheelbase. A 50 ton truck has a 5-6 wheelbase with 33" wheels. Tim O'Connor

I believe I am done with the fine tuning of this 3D resin printed car. I spent yesterday adding the final under frame details that I can make out in the pictures. I know I missed a few things that are

Yes my folks moved to lakeland in '61 and the water stunk. I left and moved back in 1972 to Winter Haven a few miles away wasn't as bad. Lakeland is OK now but there were palaces in that state that